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Error: Lab Manager 4 Lost VirtualCenter Connection

I connected to our Lab Manager 4 environment and saw that in the lab manager web GUI, all workspaces appear as unavailable. I have noticed that a warning message appears: Lost VirtualCenter Connection. I went to the activity log and noticed in the following error:

I restarted the lab manager vCenter monitor service, but it didn’t help. I went back looking in the activity log, and noticed the following error:

Solution

This error Sais it all – I forgot that I have changed the vCenter user’s password that is used by the lab manager a couple of days earlier. I went to: System > Settings > vCenter® and I have changed the password that is written in the lab manager’s GUI to the real password. Afterwards, I restarted the lab manager vCenter monitor service and everything came back to normal.